Vidin

city in Vidin municipality, Vidin oblast, Bulgaria
Place border_city Q178531
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Summary

Vidin is a border city[1]. Vidin ranks in the top 7% of border city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,246 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Vidin[3]
  • Country: Bulgaria[4]
  • Located in or next to body of water: Danube[5]
  • Instance of: municipality seat[6], oblast seat[7], city in Bulgaria[8]
  • Twinned administrative body: Zaječar[9], Rivne[10], West Carrollton[11], Ulm[12], Lecco[13], Hódmezővásárhely[14], Demre[15], Deggendorf[16], Debar[17], Calafat[18]
  • Postal code: 3700[19]
  • Commons category: Vidin[20]
  • Local dialing code: 094[21]
  • Official website: https://vidin.bg/[22]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Vidin[23]
  • Population: 69,002[24], 82,665[25], 67,644[26], 82,383[27], 66,523[28], 76,659[29], 65,293[30], 71,718[31], 18,600[32], 55,966[33], 54,299[34], 53,488[35], 52,558[36], 51,602[37]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[38], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[39], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[40], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[41], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[42], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[43], Otto's encyclopedia[44], Meyer’s Universum, Siebzehnter Band[45]
  • Capital of: Vidin[46]

Why It Matters

Vidin has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Vidin is known by 30 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . NRPP. Retrieved . nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . city-adm.rv.ua. city-adm.rv.ua. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . vidin.bg. vidin.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . grao.bg. grao.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Q129676789. wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . nsi.bg. nsi.bg. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10d ago · Nikola Tulechki · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetreference-add:2| */ Native label: Вѝдин, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/288803|batch #288803]]"
  2. 11d ago · Nikola Tulechki · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'azb', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'ca', 'ce', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'c
    Native label → {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Видин'}, {'lang': 'bg', 'text': 'Вѝдин'}
    Country → Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire, Tsardom of Vidin +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Native label: Вѝдин, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/286655|batch #286655]]"
  3. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43532|batch #43532]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  4. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → World War Z
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q28172, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  5. 11w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 14890
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Jewish encyclopedia id: 14890, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167485511|WIDDIN (#167485511)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #"
  6. 19w ago · BGPopBot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+69002'}, {'amount': '+82665'}, {'amount': '+67644'} +30
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Population, nsi-population: add 2025 population (NSI demographics, preferred)"
  7. 23w ago · Profesorul Blazat · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Country → —
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 1912668, 5895991
    Topic's main category → Category:Vidin
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Capital of: Vidin eyalet"
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